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Crackers

With Shuddering Fall. By Joyce Carol Oates. (Cape, 21s.) The Ice Age. By Tamas Aczel. (Seeker and Warburg, 25s.) The Long Vengeance. By Max Hart. (Allen and Unwin, 18s.) The Ice......

Cnv

[ C - 7 lL Wages in Cuckoo Land By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT G ENI 1201. - S1.1' voicing the feelings of all his Conservative opponents, Mr. Ray Gunter, the Minister of Labour, told a......

It's A Crime

At Bertram's lintel, by Agatha Christie (Collins, 16s.). The patrons of Claridge's might well hold up their hands in horror, murmuring 'this could never happen here.' And the......